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Originally Posted by Daseal
However, if someone goes to college has an amazing allstar year, who are WE to keep them out of the pros [?]
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Define "we". "WE" the fans? The fans don't have a say one way or the other. The NFL decides who gets to play in their league and who doesn't. Clarett should no more be able to demand to play in the NFL than you or I.
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Originally Posted by Daseal
If they don't have a good team next year, their numbers could drop, along with their salary. They're trying to make a living.
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So what? I'm trying to make a living too! That doesn't entitle me to seek a court order demanding that I get into a doctor's office to start practicing medicine because, "I'm trying to make a living!"
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Originally Posted by Daseal
I think Clarett is an amazing talent and deserves to be in the NFL.
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Fine. He may be an amazing talent. But I disagree with your premise that he "carried his team to a national championship". Football is the ultimate team sport. No one player singlehandedly leads any team anywhere without the cooperation, talent, and motivation of other members of the team.
The NFL is a private organization, Daseal. No one should be able to sue a private organization to demand entry. Let me ask you this: Can I seek an injunction to enter your home, despite your contention that your house is private property and you have the right to let in whomever you want? According to your logic, I can. I have every right to walk into your house by the order of a court simply based upon my opinion that I "deserve" to be there. And not you, or anyone else can stop me.
How do you like that? If we follow your philosophy to its logical conclusion, nobody has any right to enjoy their property or their associations with other people exclusively. Anyone can seek a court order and barge in on your activities, your parties, your family reunions, dinner with friends, your private poker games --
at any time, for any reason, based only on the fact that they think they "deserve" to be there.
The Clarett ruling is a travesty. And it's a ruling by a judge who admitted that she had never seen more than one half of a football game in her entire life. It will destroy college football, and dilute the talent and playing level of the NFL the same way it has the NBA. More importantly, it is a further attack on privacy rights in this country. And while you think that's just fine and dandy, YOUR DAY IS COMING. Sooner or later the position you take now will come back to bite you in the ass. What goes around, comes around, my friend.
Get ready.